Theodore Roethke Quotes

The Meadow Mouse

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In a shoe box stuffed in an old nylon stockingSleeps the baby mouse I found in the meadow,Where he trembled and shook beneath a stickTill I caught him up by the tail and brought him in,Cradled in my hand,A little quaker, the whole body of him trembling,His absurd whiskers sticking out like a cartoon-mouse,